Laguna Seca powerslide meet 2011

The California Kid said:

On the way to the airport to pick up Chops and His family I was really worried That has Family would be just like him, but Luckily Chop's is the biggest kid in the group! Chops was my second to last pick up at LAX as I had already spent most of the week scooping up most of our Guest, Curve was the last one. Chops and the Fam looked pretty tiered from their flight and I had a meeting to attend to, so I took them to my little apartment so they could rest for a bit as I attended my meeting when I came back from my meeting Rog was completely knocked out. Unfortouanetly his family was still there and his boyfriend Jumkie was on the way to my place already so I couldnt take advantage of him as he lay in my bed

Jumkie is a very jealous and overbearing man when it come to his powersliders as soon as I picked one up he'd expect them back at his place within minutes.

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Just reminded me of something.

On the way to pick up curve from lax. Cali at the wheel of jums gangsta GMC truck with 4 big ... exhausts sticking out the back. Arrab sat shotgun, me and the lovely willski cuddled up in the back we head down the freeway music blearing. As we aproach LAX the LAPD pull us over. The officer said we looked suspitious, Well a mex driving a flash truck you could see his point jk. Once he discovered there were 3 englishmen in the car and we informed him we were english so damn near Royality he let us on our way (after searching the car

chopperman said:

Just reminded me of something.

On the way to pick up curve from lax. Cali at the wheel of jums gangsta GMC truck with 4 big ... exhausts sticking out the back. Arrab sat shotgun, me and the lovely willski cuddled up in the back we head down the freeway music blearing. As we aproach LAX the LAPD pull us over. The officer said we looked suspitious, Well a mex driving a flash truck you could see his point

jk. Once he discovered there were 3 englishmen in the car and we informed him we were english so damn near Royality he let us on our way (after searching the car

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I bet those cops couldn't get out of there fast enough, when they realised who was on board!

So after the shooting day out which we all enjoyed we headed back to jums place. Shortly after arriving jum with his charming teliphone voice phones the chap ive hired the RV from (Indian Freddy) and tells him where on our way. This Rv park is a good 45min drive from jums and he has a party arranged for his guests that evening. Times kicking on so me jum wilski and curve head out to Irvine .

I took curve with me because he was more familier with american road's and could tell me wtf the signs ment and who had right of way ect.

We get to the RV park and Indian Freddy opens the gate, we turn the corner and there it is, a ....... mansion on wheels. We all laugh and jum says ".... dude, your gona kill some muvafuka in that". Now its freddys job to show me how everything works in this badboy, i have zero experiance with RV's. I pay freddy the $2365 hire fee and he starts to show me the in's and outs. Within seconds jum shouts out " tell this dude to stfu we have the Taco lady coming. Freddy looks at me in disbelief and i say, "dont worry i'll work it out".

Willski and jum head back in their car while me and curve drive the monster out of the yard. I never driven on yank road's only ridden a bike and this ...... is left hand drive and 38ft long. Driving down the freeway was scary, more for the other road users i think. One difference with american road's compared to uk roads is their alloud to undertake as well as overtake. This with the fact im not used to left hand drive and about 8ft wide ment i kept stradling the right lane. This scared curve as he was sat that side and the big interstate trucks were flying past us on both sides but a bit too close for comfort his side

We stop at a gas station ( funny they call it that as they dont sell gas only diesel and petrol). Im queing for water and jerky, curve in the que wearing his trademark straw cowboy hat. Curve starts talking to some bloke who is infact another texan. They talk about guns and shooting peeps like true texans then the other bloke leaves. Im paying for my goods turn to see this beautiful girl talking to curve about his hat. Curve leaves and the girl starts talking to me. This girl is a real stunner and says to me "dont you love the humanity" in a real sexy smooth voice, I smile and say "yes i do". she says "i love human interaction" i said "so do i" feeling im starting to get a bonner and think impure thoughts i bid farewell and join the boys outside.

We heads back to jums. By the time we get there jums road looks like an RV park. There is jums RV, an RV jum has hired with a big camper trailer attached, loads of cars and me trying to find a place to park the mobile mansion. I park up and walk into jums rear garden and the place is packed with Friends i met in 2008 ,people i was now meeting for the first time and of course the many powersliders who made the pilgrimage.

We hung The St georges flag for the english, The stars and stripes for the american and the Scotts Solitare for our buddy basspete who we all wished was there but was to busy freezing his balls off in Orkney.

The booze started flowing, the food was sublime and the company was top draw. God knows what time we went to bed that night but we all knew we had an early start the next morning.

GUNA here we come.

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Man, wish I could have gone. Looks like my high altitude tolerance for the wet stuff will have to wait to impress...

Can we merge threads and change the title. This going back and forth to hear stories about the same trip is a bit annoying. Also keep up the finger pointing and cat fighting about the posting of pictures. That is highly entertaining

JohnnyKnockdown said:

Can we merge threads and change the title. This going back and forth to hear stories about the same trip is a bit annoying. Also keep up the finger pointing and cat fighting about the posting of pictures. That is highly entertaining

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The other thread is too long, it was 22 pages before the meet even started. Its so out of time i dont know where to begin there. Where in vegas before we have left for guna. Its like a ....... Tarantino movie Plus i made an error of judgment causing irreparable bad blood so dont really want to post there any more. I thought id start a new thread as i have many storys and pics to share if indeed anyone gives a .....

i would have have enjoyed the shootin range! sorry i missed that....

chopperman said:

The other thread is too long, it was 22 pages before the meet even started. Its so out of time i dont know where to begin there. Where in vegas before we have left for guna. Its like a ....... Tarantino movie

Plus i made an error of judgment causing irreparable bad blood so dont really want to post there any more. I thought id start a new thread as i have many storys and pics to share if indeed anyone gives a .....

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I havn't kept up. You know how we kid that you internet goes down and joke you're in a 3rd world country? Well I am actually in one. hehe So, any issues keep in PMs guys.



Anyway, maybe we can merge from the point we started to post when the advance party landed on the Jumkie island? We could merge this one and the planning thread starting from Frosty's post 165. Btw, I like the 'Planning' thread because it shows the anticipation and the human size of ..... So I'll be posting there, as it follows the spirit of the meet up, and to piss you off. hahaha cabron!

JohnnyKnockdown said:

Can we merge threads and change the title. This going back and forth to hear stories about the same trip is a bit annoying. Also keep up the finger pointing and cat fighting about the posting of pictures. That is highly entertaining

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No cat fighting. A misunderstanding... nothing to write home about. Twas a happy crew.... some perhaps happier than others, which might explain why the lovely lady seems to be discretely covering the crotch of the guy with the biggest smile.

chopperman said:

Just reminded me of something.

On the way to pick up curve from lax. Cali at the wheel of jums gangsta GMC truck with 4 big ... exhausts sticking out the back. Arrab sat shotgun, me and the lovely willski cuddled up in the back we head down the freeway music blearing. As we aproach LAX the LAPD pull us over. The officer said we looked suspitious, Well a mex driving a flash truck you could see his point

jk. Once he discovered there were 3 englishmen in the car and we informed him we were english so damn near Royality he let us on our way (after searching the car

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We get signalled by a police officer to pull over. He said we looked suspitious....We wind down the back window and me,Rog and Arrab just laugh at him ( not sure he was expecting that ). I did think that a one stage Chops was gonna break his passport out of his top pocket and slap the dude across the face with it. " WE ARE DAMN NEAR ROYALTY YOU KNOW "

Keshav said:

No cat fighting. A misunderstanding... nothing to write home about. Twas a happy crew....

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As we walked down toward the inside part of the track, we passed by along the fence at turn 11. There was this dude that had a bunch of Union Jacks up, so I decided to ask him to give me one. He did, and handed CaliKid and Wilski a Brit beer. Nice guys. Wilski tied the Jack to his backpack.



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Frosty and Roger talk racing as they view practice from turn 4 as Crutchlow passes by.

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The new trophy boys of GP. Hey, even the girls need some eye candy.

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Wilski pretends to help out with the cooking.

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Ok, if you notice, we have two spaces next to eachother. This is near impossible to do, as all the spaces have been owned by a person for years. What happens is when a person buys a camp site, they are given the opportunity to renew every year. Once somebody doesn't renew, the person next to them is given the opportunity to upgrade. In this way, the best spaces are owned by people who have been renewing for years and years. So for me to get spaces near eachother, I have to buy several from people who can't go last minute, and then offer people money to switch spaces. At one point I had 5 spaces and I was wheeling and dealing with the owners to get them to switch, and then I would have to resell on ebay or craig's list. This is just one of the many little details that go unnoticed to try and get such a large group to have a seamless time at the races. So here is a picture of one of the guys who I ended up selling one of my extra spaces. We got along so well that I told him to come on down any evening and there was sure to be a party. So he did. In fact, when CaliKid went to pick up Curve from the airport, he had Roger, Wilski, and I think Kesh (not sure) in the car. They met up with this guy to make the space exchange, and I think I told him to call the big balled guy a "briefcase ......". I later asked him if he did, and he said, 'nah man'. hahaha Anyway, as you can see, even people who were not part of the group got caught up in the good times.



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As you guys already know, CaliKid is an actual chef, so we put his ... to work.

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Roger decides to have a sip of the green juice. Maybe that's what Bonnie slipped into his beer when we went to their wedding in Vegas, as I recall, Rog was very chipper. That or he was thinking of the honeymoon.

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CaliKid and Gator, is that a 'shocker' hand he has up? Are they practicing for something they didn't mention?

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Check out the expression of Arrabi's face. Like, 'dude, do you know that .... isn't woods or tequila?'

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It really did feel like Christmas.

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WTF dude, that didn't taste like mere tequila.

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I think this is where Ms. Gator started to bring out the Bloody Marys. And then it got crazy!

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We head up to Laguna ahead of jum and his passengers and unlike jum and crew we has a nice trouble free trip north. In my Rv were me bonnie and our 3 kids, Calikid arrab and denali. My only torment on the trip was when two thirds of the way up we stopped for diesel . After pumping in $230 of diesel i realised hiring the biggest rv i could find may have been a tad foolhardy The second time i realised this was when we got to laguna seca in the dark and the fog and i had to park the bloody thing in a space tighter than a nun's fanny. Sometime later jum arrives in his tiny little rv and spends the next few hours trying to park next to me seriously this rv park up the hill is packed out and very tight for space.



The following morning we head down to the track. Get breakfast, visit the gift shop ect. Now this story im not sure if it happened on the friday or saturday and i have no pictures, so if you have pics please post.



Where goofing about when we spot Steve Parrish, we walk over and say hi. I put my arm around steve and ask for a picture. He says sure and posses a smile for the camera. As the pics are being taken i say to steve, " im a fan of yours". Arrab smiles at me, i then say to steve. " yeah i always fight your corner mate, even when these ........ are bad mouthing you" parrish then starts to walk away. Arrab shouts out to him that he has a question. Fair play to parrish because even tho were all punking him he comes back and chats to arrab and answers his question. When this is going on a few of the lads hurl insults about Charlie cox



A little while later i spot coxy coming out of the toilet block, mobile phone to his ear. I shout "yo dude, hows it going". He says "yeah ok, im just talking to the misses". I shout down his phone "hi charlies misses" he laughs and says to his misses something like, Ah nothing, just a load of poms bugging me". He then poses for pics with us. As these pics are being taken who should walk past but steve parrish. Parrish looks over ,see's us and says, "hey charlie, they were calling you a .... a minute ago" Cox breaks away and walks off with a degected look on his face.

A while later wilski come's up to me and a few other and says " guess who ive just seen in the toilet" who we say," ....... charlie cox, he turned to me and said" while laughing "you bunch of ....... ......s".

chopperman said:

We head up to Laguna ahead of jum and his passengers and unlike jum and crew we has a nice trouble free trip north. In my Rv were me bonnie and our 3 kids, Calikid arrab and denali. My only torment on the trip was when two thirds of the way up we stopped for diesel . After pumping in $230 of diesel i realised hiring the biggest rv i could find may have been a tad foolhardy

The second time i realised this was when we got to laguna seca in the dark and the fog and i had to park the bloody thing in a space tighter than a nun's fanny. Sometime later jum arrives in his tiny little rv and spends the next few hours trying to park next to me

seriously this rv park up the hill is packed out and very tight for space.



The following morning we head down to the track. Get breakfast, visit the gift shop ect. Now this story im not sure if it happened on the friday or saturday and i have no pictures, so if you have pics please post.



Where goofing about when we spot Steve Parrish, we walk over and say hi. I put my arm around steve and ask for a picture. He says sure and posses a smile for the camera. As the pics are being taken i say to steve, " im a fan of yours". Arrab smiles at me, i then say to steve. " yeah i always fight your corner mate, even when these ........ are bad mouthing you"

parrish then starts to walk away. Arrab shouts out to him that he has a question. Fair play to parrish because even tho were all punking him he comes back and chats to arrab and answers his question. When this is going on a few of the lads hurl insults about Charlie cox

A little while later i spot coxy coming out of the toilet block, mobile phone to his ear. I shout "yo dude, hows it going". He says "yeah ok, im just talking to the misses". I shout down his phone "hi charlies misses" he laughs and says to his misses something like, Ah nothing, just a load of poms bugging me". He then poses for pics with us. As these pics are being taken who should walk past but steve parrish. Parrish looks over ,see's us and says, "hey charlie, they were calling you a .... a minute ago"

Cox breaks away and walks off with a degected look on his face.

A while later wilski come's up to me and a few other and says " guess who ive just seen in the toilet" who we say," ....... charlie cox, he turned to me and said" while laughing "you bunch of ....... ......s".

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hahaha it was funny. Seen Parrish earlier and he says " Where's all the yanks ?. All I have seen is you bunch of reprobates staggering around ". I said " Our American hosts are just round the corrner "



After we ragged Coxy a bit, I went into the toilet and Coxy was in there. I said " Alright Charles "....He looked at me and laughed..Then said " You bunch of ....... ......s " and walked away shaking his head. I don't think he expected the p1ss to be ripped out of him at Laguna

Willski said:

hahaha it was funny. Seen Parrish earlier and he says " Where's all the yanks ?. All I have seen is you bunch of reprobates staggering around ". I said " Our American hosts are just round the corrner "



After we ragged Coxy a bit, I went into the toilet and Coxy was in there. I said " Alright Charles "....He looked at me and laughed..Then said " You bunch of ....... ......s " and walked away shaking his head. I don't think he expected the p1ss to be ripped out of him at Laguna

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Who's got the photo's ? I know someone was snapping away but cant remember who.

chopperman said:

Who's got the photo's ? I know someone was snapping away but cant remember who.

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I'll have a look - it may have been me.



These stories are so well told, like Silverstone I am enjoying just taking it all in and reminiscing about the experience. It's a bit like cooking a meal - it tastes better and is easier to savour if someone else has prepared it. Saying that, we all have our own particular experiences to share, many of which compliment the posts already made. I am collecting my thoughts and my own observations will be aired shortly. In the meantime this meet up, made last years look like a dress rehearsal....it followed on where we left off after Laguna 2010 and propelled the Powerslide tradition into another dimension. Suffice to say, the good friends who couldn't be there this year were sorely missed, but this has to be the most legendary Powerslide meeting in the history of the site........until we all convene again!!!

I agree with Arrab....I am reading some of the posts then smiling. Then I might just be sitiing at work or in the garden and something else pops back into my head about the week that I had forgotten and then I start smiling again !

Still basking in the glow. And saving a few more photos to upload.

Thats the thing about these meet ups! there like a real life dream, that you can always look back on and it puts a big smile on your face! nothing tops the combination of good mates Booze and Moto GP